"Biliverdine" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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1,3,6,7-Tetramethyl-4,5-dicarboxyethyl-2,8-divinylbilenone. Biosynthesized from hemoglobin as a precursor of bilirubin. Occurs in the bile of AMPHIBIANS and of birds, but not in normal human bile or serum.
| Descriptor ID |
D001664
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D03.383.129.578.840.249.184.200 D03.633.400.909.249.184.200 D04.345.783.249.184.200 D23.767.193.184.200
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| Concept/Terms |
Biliverdine- Biliverdine
- Biliverdin
- Uteroverdine
- Dehydrobilirubin
- Ooecyan
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2025 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Biliverdine" by people in Profiles.
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Hanley D, Hauber ME, Holford M, Moya C, Spottiswoode CN, Dixit T. Pigment concentrations only partially predict avian eggshell colour mimicry in a polymorphic host-brood parasite system. Biol Lett. 2025 Jun; 21(6):20250112.
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Verdes A, Cho W, Hossain M, Brennan PL, Hanley D, Grim T, Hauber ME, Holford M. Nature's Palette: Characterization of Shared Pigments in Colorful Avian and Mollusk Shells. PLoS One. 2015; 10(12):e0143545.
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Thomas DB, Hauber ME, Hanley D, Waterhouse GI, Fraser S, Gordon KC. Analysing avian eggshell pigments with Raman spectroscopy. J Exp Biol. 2015 Sep; 218(Pt 17):2670-4.
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Igic B, Cassey P, Grim T, Greenwood DR, Mosk?t C, Rutila J, Hauber ME. A shared chemical basis of avian host-parasite egg colour mimicry. Proc Biol Sci. 2012 Mar 22; 279(1731):1068-76.
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Pereira LO, Oliveira PL, Almeida IC, Paiva-Silva GO. Biglutaminyl-biliverdin IX alpha as a heme degradation product in the dengue fever insect-vector Aedes aegypti. Biochemistry. 2007 Jun 12; 46(23):6822-9.
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Paiva-Silva GO, Cruz-Oliveira C, Nakayasu ES, Maya-Monteiro CM, Dunkov BC, Masuda H, Almeida IC, Oliveira PL. A heme-degradation pathway in a blood-sucking insect. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 May 23; 103(21):8030-5.
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Satoh T, Baba M, Nakatsuka D, Ishikawa Y, Aburatani H, Furuta K, Ishikawa T, Hatanaka H, Suzuki M, Watanabe Y. Role of heme oxygenase-1 protein in the neuroprotective effects of cyclopentenone prostaglandin derivatives under oxidative stress. Eur J Neurosci. 2003 Jun; 17(11):2249-55.